HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



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— Hedges ; common. The blossoms are used for making 

 perfume ; the berries for wine. Evelyn, speaking in its praise, 

 says : " If the medicinal properties of the leaves, bark, berries, 

 &c., were thoroughly known, I cannot tell what our countryman 

 could ail for which he would not find a remedy, from every hedge, 

 either for sickness or wound." — Fl. June. Perennial. 



2. S. JSbulus (Dwarf Elder, Banewort). — A large herbaceous 

 plant, 2 — 4 feet high, with ovate, serrate, leafy stipules, 3 principal 



viBT^RNUM 6pulus (Guelder Rose, Water Elder). 



branches to its cymes, and pink tips to its petals. — Bushy places ; 

 not uncommon. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



3. Viburnum (Guelder Rose). — Shrubs ; leaves simple ; -flowers 

 5-merous, white or pink, in cymose clusters, small, or the outer 

 ones male or neuter with large corollas ; corolla rotate or bell- 

 shaped ; stigmas 3, sessile ; berry i-seeded. (Name, the Latin 

 name for this or some similar plant.) 



I. V. dpulus (Guelder Rose, Water Elder). — A shrub or small 

 tree ; bark very acrid ; leaves smooth, 3 — ^5-lobed, stipulate, with 

 glands at the upper end of the stalk, assuming a rich vinous hue 

 before falling ; flowers in flat-topped cymes, the outer ones neuter 



